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First! The Flotsli!
A minute, free floating, animal that navigates by rotating its body to catch currents with its sail organs, and by inflating and deflating the swim bladder in the organ sack at the bottom of its body. It feeds by siphoning nutrients from the water around it using a hole on its stalk into a filter organ (also in its organ sack). It has two incredibly rudimentary light detection organs.

Enter! The Micro-Wyrm!
Arguably not even an animal, the Micro-Wyrm is a colony of symbiotic single celled organisms that work as a single unit. It is free floating, and fees by both photo-synthesizing using its two chlorophyll producing "wing" cells, and by absorbing nutrients from the water using its pale blue "tail" cell. Its "head" cell filters out and expels toxins while metabolizing nutrients absorbed by the tail cell into chemical compounds vital for the rest of the colonies survival. It is limp, and incapable of locomotion.

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>>5579253
forgot picture

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Third! The Probopod!
A species of worm that locomotes by moving the 6 proboscis' at the bottom of its body, which it also uses to feed by siphoning algae, minerals, and biological-detritus, from the soil below it up through the hollow points at the tips of its feet. Its tail is used to self right on the occasion that it is knocked over by a strong current.

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Here we have the Squeeboid!
Despite superficially looking like a plant this is actually a species of stationary animal with a symbiotic relationship with the algae that grows on the flat, feathery, plume that extends from the top of its body. The bottom of its body acts as an anchor and a storage for sugars produced by the algae it shelters in its plume.

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And now the plants! The Stickling!
A chain of long, stiff, cellulose rich plant that grows in chains of multiple organisms, with a single softer "Anchor" cell at the bottom. They aren't complicated, but they are full of potential.

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And finally! The Stringling.
a more primitive version of the stringling, it lack cellulose or an anchor cell, and instead grows in long, disorganized chains.

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How to play:
>Save image
>Open it in Ms.Paint
>Draw some modifications
>Post in thread explaining the modifications you've made, as well as whatever fluff you feel like adding
>HOLY SHIT NEW ANIMAL/PLANT DROPPED

--Size Increments--
• Size 1: Sugar Ant (0.1 - 1 cm)
• Size 2: Bumblebee (1.01 - 2.5 cm)
• Size 3: Mosquitofish (2.5 - 5 cm)
• Size 4: Poison Dart Frog (5 - 10 cm)
• Size 5: Giant Water Bug (11 - 20 cm)
• Size 6: Birdwing Butterfly (21 - 35 cm)
• Size 7: Horseshoe Crab (35 - 70 cm)
• Size 8: Australian Trumpet Snail (71 - 100 cm)
• Size 9: Japanese Giant Salamander (100 - 150 cm)
• Size 10: Aldabra Giant Tortoise (150 - 200 cm)
• Size 11: Leatherback Sea Turtle (2.01 - 2.5 m)
• Size 12: Mekong Giant Catfish (2.5 - 3 m)
• Size 13: Giant Pacific Octopus (3 - 4 m)
• Size 14: Ocean Sunfish (4.1 - 4.6 m)
• Size 15: Tiger Shark (4.6 - 5.2 m)
• Size 16: White Sturgeon (5.2 - 5.8 m)
• Size 17: African Elephant (5.8 - 6.5 m)
• Size 18: Great White Shark (6.5 - 8 m)
• Size 19: Manta Ray (8.1 - 9 m)
• Size 20: Porites Coral Reef Colony (9 - 10.5 m)
• Size 21: Whale Shark (10.5 - 12 m)
• Size 22: Gigantosaurus (12 - 16 m)
• Size 23: Blue Whale (16.1 - 22 m)
• Size 24: Brachiosaurus (22.1 - 30 m)
• Size 25: Smaug, The Desolater (30m+)

>>5579252
>Flow like water
Can I give it a Stickling katana..?

>>5579487
if you wish

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>>5579254
With two extra "wings" the Micro-Wyrm is able to photosynthesize more efficiently, allowing it to grow larger

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>>5579252
Flotsaw began extensively using its optical organs to analyze the nearby surroundings around its frail body. A new, ribbon-shaped optical organ has grown at the end of its stalk to help protect the organ sack and allow course correction with its movement. The filter organ expanded due to excessive nutritient collection needed for the evolution.

>>5579255
>>5579261
Stickopods are really just Probopods and Sticklings that are enjoying some very casual symbiosis.

Pod offers moves, Stick offers stick.

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>>5596721
forgot the stickopod. Fug.

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>>5586410
being larger has some advantages but not in this case the greater surface area to volume makes there feeding easier and reproduction quicker the coil of its ribbon absorbs any sudden kinetic force gently

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>>5596723
Although the extra sticklings proved the Probopod with some defense to attacks from above the symbiosis isn't perfect and both parties suffer minor health problems caused by the Stickling's anchor sucking (an insufficiënt amount of)nutrients from the Probobods

>>5596984
Behold, a free-sailing pig penis!

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>>5579261
>>5579263
Stringlings started piling up together, causing even more chaos than originally. Who knows what they might be up to? TOTAL WORD DOMINATION.

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>>5579257
by radially splitting its plume by a mutation affecting its bodily symmetry it has increased its ability to catch sunlight in shallow water often crowding out eachother but it also make them vulnerable to being blocked out for longer with there increased body mass

>>5598504
do you have this but without a gradient?

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>>5604970
now I do

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>>5596723
>>5596721
bodily symmetry grows to become more radial generating secondary and Tertiary proboscis rows making it able too feed on attached Stickling that attach to its body. this makes carrying them around LESS of a detriment while the Sticklings gain a mobile holdfast letting spread faster over areas being a strong positive for this near indirect parasitic species

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>>5598504
>>5605012
bioöd xomplex but random structures often shifted by natural trends in how it interacts with the enviroment the anchor cells from the sticklings allows for more complex or simple structures

>>5605080
mwahahahaha, terrific, beautiful
My original idea with these was to create an analogue logic system on micro level and make the thing develop some sort of basic procedure-based behavior. https://youtu.be/QrkiJZKJfpY

>>5605159
feed me ideas and i shall squeeze out the "juice" and be "happy campers"

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>>5586410
the ribon duplicates and bifucates forming a flat surface this increase in navigation along with increased fin size allows for longer passive journeys

>>5606137
Well, since you asked. The end-theme for Flotsaw in my mind was some sory of eldritch horror with very unusual or even grotesque appearance. I think its odd, passive nature of environmental filter-feeder kinda fits and the color scheme is almost gory anyway.
I was planning to add some "plant mechanics" tomorrow, but the Squeebs and Wyrms need to get some action too. Not sure what I'll do.

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>>5579254
Having grown two heads and two tails, albeit both smaller than the originals allows the Hydra-Wyrm to absorb nutrients from two places at once while also expelling toxins at different angles, thus making it less likely to "swim" through them

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>>5579257
Due to the plume and algae both growing larger the Squeeboid's bottom also expanded in order to still act as anchor despite the greater surface area

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>>5579255
The probobod lost its tail but gained an additional six proboscis' which basically makes it impossible for it to be flipped on its back

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>>5579252
swim bladder increases in size allowing it to rapidly sink or float up the water column or "rapid" compared to other members of its genus tthis mutation was created from a doubling of its genome reslting in its weird bifucated apperance